About Ana Kraš

Ana Kras blurs the personal and the commercial, art and utilitarianism in her wide-ranging body of work, encompassing furniture and household accessories, photographs, illustrations, drawings, and videos. Inspired by her surroundings and trained in applied arts, Kras is interested in objects—and improving upon them. “I don’t really sit down to create a new piece—I get the idea when I am not looking for it,” she explains. Best known for her functional objects, she uses wood, wire, and yarn to handcraft lamps, clothing racks, tables, and chairs. Her Noodle tables (begun 2009), round trays atop wire cylinder, riff off of schoolroom garbage bins; her Bonbon lamps (begun 2010), multicolored yarn stretched across wire frames, playfully reference the sweets after which they are shaped. They reveal, like all of her works, the elegance in the humble and everyday.